[HP] The magic thieves #35 [CENSORED] (Patreon)

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Chapter #35: Glitch.

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Harry and Hermione were nervous, it was already dinner time but the food wasn’t the main focus as the time for the main event was getting close, Harry was having difficulty finishing his sandwich while Hermione hadn’t even touched her salad.

They were sharing glances as they knew they had to be discreet, they didn’t want to raise suspicions amongst Neville, Lavender, and Parvati who were their remaining friends as the rest of the house didn’t believe in Harry and instead believed the lies of the daily prophet.

As for Hermione, she had never been liked by most of the general student population so associating herself with Harry Potter was the perfect excuse for them to finally treat her in the way they always wanted to, at least she was starting to get along with her roommates thanks to Harry who told her that they weren’t that bad and if Harry was willing to give anyone a chance then she could do the same.

Harry tried not to look at his clock too much and he also tried to not stare too much at Umbridge, the toad-faced witch was stuffing her mouth with a sandwich while she had the typical English breakfast on the side even if it was already night, she also had a big cup of chocolate and another of wine.

Harry couldn’t help but think of Ron as he saw her eating, she was like the feminine version of his former best friend, [CENSORED]

Umbridge suddenly dropped her cup of wine and started to shake around before she made a mess out of her food which caused everyone to gasp and laugh at her. Harry and Hermione shared a glance before they nodded with small smiles on their faces, it was finally happening.

What they’d been working for since the ministry heist was finally happening and now they couldn’t wait to see the results of their hard work, Umbridge didn’t know what was happening, she started to scream but her voice suddenly was distorted and the pitch changed constantly.

From one moment to another she was screaming in a very low tone then she was doing it in a very high tone that was almost painful to hear, Harry and Hermione’s smiles disappeared, this was taking too long, according to the spell they were trying to invent, this wasn’t supposed to take this long, in fact now that they’re thinking about it, she shouldn’t be aware of what was going on.

“Something’s wrong,” Harry whispered in Hermione’s ear as soon as he joined her and she nodded in response.

However, they decided to not do anything, whatever could happen to Umbridge would be good even if it was not what they intended to, then, the gasps were heard again because of what was happening to the toad-faced witch.

“What the…” Harry said with a confused expression.

Umbridge was acting very weirdly, it was as if she were distorting, this time not only her voice was distorting but her body too.

“It’s like she’s glitching…Like when a VHS tape loses its signal,” Hermione said in a low tone to her boyfriend.

Umbridge was starting to get angry at whatever thing was going on with her, she decided to take her wand out and tried to cast a finite incantatem on herself, however, instead of finishing what was happening, what her wand did surprised both Hermione and Harry as the thing seemed to be leaking something, it was some kind of ink that was distorting everything that was nearby.

“What the…” Neville couldn’t help but mutter.

This was getting out of control, so, Dumbledore decided to whisper something to the heads of houses and the other professors.

“Please everyone, remain calm, we don’t know what’s going on with Professor Umbridge but we’re sure she’s going to get better, Madam Pomfrey, please take her to the hospital wing,” Dumbledore said to the nurse who nodded.

Then, she carefully led the toad-faced witch to the infirmary and surprisingly, even after Umbridge disappeared, the distortion was still present.

“It’s like a black hole sucking whatever’s getting close…” Hermione said as she watched what was going on close to the area where Umbridge was sitting.

The table was being sucked and it was distorted just like the stairs and the floor, and the trail that Umbridge left was distorting the floor too, Dumbledore tested his luck and threw a glass of wine where the distortion was happening and he was surprised to see that the glass never broke, in fact, it was floating but it was slowly distorting.

“Your heads of houses are going to lead you back to your dorms to finish dinner, be careful, and don’t get too close to the distortion,” Dumbledore said with a serious tone.

Soon, carefully and slowly, the students were led back to their dorms, at that moment, Harry and Hermione decided to get lost for a few moments in the midst of the chaos to have a private chat.

“What the hell just happened?” Asked Harry with clear concern.

Umbridge was only supposed to lose her magic not become a glitched image.

“I have no idea, I think we messed up with the dimensional coordinates,” Hermione couldn’t help but sigh.

They wanted to continue the conversation, however, before they entered the common room, the Gryffindors were approached by Kingsley and Tonks, it seemed like the Aurors didn’t wait too long to arrive, the one harmed was a ministry employee, of course, it would be outrageous if they didn't spare a dime on that toad.

“Hey Tonks, Kingsley,” Harry said trying to hide his nervousness.

“Hey Harry,” said the two aurors at the same time.

“We have some questions for two people in regards to what happened tonight,” Tonks said with a serious tone.

Harry and Hermione couldn’t help but look at each other worried, it seemed like somehow they’d been discovered, Hermione was already thinking about her parents being disappointed in her and all her dreams being shattered before she could even begin to work on them.

“Yes, these two people have been given some detentions from Madam Umbridge since we arrived as far as we know, they clearly have a certain disdain for her, the two of them might look but dumb but…” Kingsley said and Hermione couldn’t help but feel offended.

She admired Kingsley, how could he be so mean to her, she wanted to shout at the older wizard for calling her dumb, however, before she could say anything, Tonks and Kingsley moved towards another group of Gryffindors.

“Fred and George Weasley,” Kingsley couldn’t help but sigh.

“What? Do you guys really think we’re involved in this?” Asked Fred with a shocked expression.

“I don’t know about you guys but it’s easy for me to suspect that the school pranksters are involved in this, however, this prank went too far guys,” Tonks couldn’t help but say. “Come on guys,” she encouraged them and McGonagall gave the Aurors permission to handle those troublesome boys.

Hermione and Harry couldn’t believe it, they were this close to being caught because Hermione didn’t like being called dumb, they needed to get out of there as soon as possible, so, as soon as they got inside Gryffindor’s common room, they went straight to the place they use to talk privately.

“This is not good, we need to study the code and do more tests,” Hermione said with a concerned tone.

“Yeah, luckily I’m not entering the quidditch team this year so, I’m going to take advantage of that free time to work on the project,” Harry said with a convinced tone.

They had lots of work to do.